Psychic Hood vs Weirdboy in a mob of boyz

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**Globzog**

the Psychic hood forces the opposing psycher to make a leadership test to to potentially negate psychic powers. If a Weirdboy is in a mob of boyz >12, does the mob rule make a psychic hood null/void or does the Weirdboy still make a leadership test off his unmodified leadership of 7 ?

**Gwar!**

No, he gets to use Ld 10.

**Globzog**

So the Mob rule is what he would roll off of. Why only 10 though?

**Gwar!**

Globzog wrote:So the Mob rule is what he would roll off of. Why only 10 though?

Because all Characteristics are capped at a maximum of 10 (or 2+ for saves). The only exception to this is Attacks.

**Globzog**

So pg 10 Ork Codex "Ork mobs may always choose to substitute the number of Orks in the mob for their normal leadership". Your saying this is capped at 10? That doesn't make sense. I would think it would specifically state in the Mob Rule description if there were a cap.

**Gwar!**

Globzog wrote:So pg 10 Ork Codex "Ork mobs may always choose to substitute the number of Orks in the mob for their normal leadership". Your saying this is capped at 10? That doesn't make sense. I would think it would specifically state in the Mob Rule description if there were a cap.

It doesn't have to, because it is in the rulebook. The mob rule does not say you can ignore that cap, so you cannot.

Page 6 BRB:

For all models except vehicles these characteristics are given a value on a scale of 0 to 10 - the higher, the better (except for a model's Armour Save, where the opposite is true l).

However no modifier may raise any characteristic above 10 or lower it below 0. Saves can at best be modified to 2+

**Globzog**

Hmm. I do see your point of the rule book stating a cap of 10, thank you. ~~But I dont know... I mean it doesn't fit that an Ork mob of 30 strong flee if they lost 8 in a shooting phase.~~ Ooops, 11+ their fearless.

**Gwar!**

It is also in the GW FAQ if that means anything to you.

Q. Can a Weirdboy’s Leadership be increased to more than 10 by the Mob Rule?
A. No, it can be increased, but only up to a maximum of 10.

**Kaaihn**

Post removed, mis-read the original question.

**Gwar!**

Kaaihn wrote:Keep in mind page 50 of the rulebook.

"...a Psychic test, which is a normal Leadership test. Note that this test must always be made on the psyker's own Leadership value. Even where Leadership tests would normally be taken on the value of another model, tests for using psychic powers are always taken using the psykers' own Leadership."

How is that relevant? He is testing on his own leadership, just in this case he has a special rule that changes his leadership. He is not using another models Ld at all, he is using his own, which happens to be 10.

**Orkeosaurus**

It says in the Weirdboy's own entry that he may use the Mob Rule to increase his leadership for psychic tests.

**DarkHound**

Gwar is right, moving on. He is Ld10 in a mob of atleast that number.

**Kaaihn**

I edited the content out of my post at the same time Gwar! was quoting me because I realized I had misread the original question, and what I posted wasn't relevant. Disregard the quote in Gwar's post.